American Idyll

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Friday, June 21, 2013

A Place Once Called Earth



Elgar: Enigma Variations 1-8



Elgar: Enigma Variations 9-12



Elgar: Enigma Variations 13-15



Long ago, when an early galaxy began to pour light out into the surrounding darkness, no witness could have known that billions of years later some remote clumps of rock and metal, ice and organic molecules would fall together to make a place called Earth; or that life would arise and thinking beings evolve who would one day capture a little of that galactic light, and try to puzzle out what had sent it on its way. And after the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being -- and they will know nothing of a place once called Earth.
--Carl Sagan

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